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Kevin Thomas

Agrees with the Tomatometer 64% of the time.

Publications:: eFilmCritic.com , Journal News (Westchester, NY) , Los Angeles Daily News , Los Angeles Times , Newsday
Critics' Group:: Los Angeles Film Critics Association, National Society of Film Critics

Total Reviews:: 1773

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
2/5	14%	Animal Behavior (1989)	" Allen and Assante are so terrific together you regret that "Animal Behavior," goes for whimsy and sentimentality rather than the screwball humor and sophistication of "Bringing Up Baby."" — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 1, 2012
3/5	50%	The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch (2011)	" There are plenty of twists and just as many bad guys speaking in a wide variety of accents. It's handsome, large-scale escapist fare - and has as its costar the formidable, versatile Kristin Scott Thomas." — Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 17, 2011
4/5	71%	Dzi Croquettes (2009)	" "Dzi Croquettes" is both a tribute and a terrific entertainment." — Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 10, 2011
2.5/5	61%	Young Goethe In Love (2011)	" It drowns in swoony clich�s." — Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 4, 2011
4/5	77%	Ra. One (2011)	" Anubhav Sinha's exhilarating fantasy "Ra.One" is Bollywood at its best." — Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 27, 2011
2.5/5	78%	Project X (1987)	" "Project X" reflects quality and care throughout, but its elements don't quite mesh." — Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 26, 2011
4/5	90%	Daylight (2011)	" Replete with superior acting and visual splendor, the film is a fine instance of the overly familiar made fresh." — Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 21, 2011
2/5	36%	Finding Joe (2011)	" Solomon's approach places didacticism over revelation. The film is weighed down by a barrage of declarations from zealots in which wisdom is intertwined with the self-evident and platitudinous." — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 29, 2011
3.5/5	——	There Was Once... (2011)	" Much in this wholly absorbing and poignant documentary is familiar from numerous previous Holocaust accounts, but Mago and her quiet sense of moral obligation provides a fresh perspective." — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 22, 2011
4/5	38%	Programming The Nation? (2011)	" Profoundly disturbing, as ambitious as it is provocative." — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 22, 2011
4/5	——	The Neighbor ()	" An unabashed art film, demanding, with a measured pace and much ambiguity. It does possess some fine acting and a handsome look." — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 15, 2011
4/5	41%	Special Treatment (2011)	" Complex, compassionate and endlessly illuminating..." — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 15, 2011
3.5/5	55%	Mr. Nice (2011)	" Though the film takes a while to cast its spell, writer-director-cinematographer Bernard Rose's close observation of Marks and those around him becomes increasingly involving and allows Rose to comment on the widespread failure of the war on drugs." — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 11, 2011
4/5	83%	Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2011)	" Chang Chia-lu's intricate script bristles with wit and suspense; the film from start to finish is a terrific entertainment." — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 2, 2011
3/5	——	Politics Of Love (2011)	" Inevitably, there's a twinge in watching a movie centered on an election that inspired such high hopes from today's troubled perspective, but on its own terms, "Politics of Love" emerges as an amusing entertainment." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 25, 2011
5/5	88%	Darwin ()	" "Darwin" is a beautiful, elegiac work with unexpected impact and meaning." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 19, 2011
5/5	88%	The Hedgehog (2011)	" An exquisite, intimate film of restraint and delicacy." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 19, 2011
4/5	79%	The Myth Of The American Sleepover (2011)	" With "The Myth of the American Sleepover," first-time writer-director David Robert Mitchell tells a coming-of-age tale with such freshness and such bemused insight it's as if it has never been told before." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 29, 2011
3/5	——	Singham (2011)	" Bollywood fans are more likely than not to be able to go with "Singham's'" lengthy - but lively - ride." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 24, 2011
4/5	89%	Passione (2011)	" A beautifully structured and photographed film, John Turturro's rapturous "Passione" offers a vibrant exploration and celebration of Neapolitan music in all its grit and glory..." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 21, 2011
2/5	11%	The Ledge (2011)	" A film that's ultimately sabotaged by its own heavy-handed screenplay." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 8, 2011
3.5/5	91%	Delhi Belly (2011)	" Akshat Verma's script is imaginative and funny, the film's stars are engaging and "Delhi Belly" adds up to pleasing escapist fare." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 1, 2011
4/5	100%	Leap Year (2011)	" "Leap Year" might be too much for some audiences, but it is a potent and surprising work." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 1, 2011
3/5	20%	Double Dhamaal (2011)	" The film is amiably silly, gaudy and even pleasantly diverting for the non-Hindi-speaking viewer who realizes that the verbal gags that elicited laughter in the original language tend to elude translation via English subtitles." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 27, 2011
4/5	74%	The Names of Love (2011)	" So many actresses are asked to be adorable even in their characters' most exasperating moments, but few pull it off as well as Forestier." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 24, 2011
3.5/5	54%	Farmageddon (2011)	" An eye-popping wake-up call revealing how the USDA and FDA have increasingly waged war on America's small farmers even when they can prove they are contributing healthful products to our food supply." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 23, 2011
4/5	79%	Road To Nowhere (2011)	" A stylish, shimmering neo-noir with a multi-layered narrative for which the director's longtime collaborator Steven Gaydos has written an exceedingly elliptical and challenging script." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 16, 2011
4/5	83%	!Women Art Revolution (2011)	" An astute mix of interviews with artists, critics and experts on the movement." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 16, 2011
2/5	57%	Empire of Silver (2011)	" Makes for unwieldy melodrama, rather than the enthralling epic it might have been." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 2, 2011
4/5	79%	Earthwork (2011)	" "Earthwork" takes an unexpected swerve but one that adds layers of meaning and emotion to a film that is as beautiful and wrenching as it is unassuming." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 19, 2011
4/5	50%	Spork (2011)	" For all its poignancy, "Spork" never loses sight of its goal to be zesty, sharp-witted fun." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 19, 2011
2/5	0%	An Invisible Sign (2011)	" Agrelo clumsily attempts to play jaunty larkiness against somber situations." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 12, 2011
3.5/5	46%	The High Cost of Living (2011)	" Chow and her actors are so gifted that this fragile situation escapes contrivance to become a poignant, romantic and deftly nuanced revelation of character and emotions." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 12, 2011
3/5	40%	Skateland (2011)	" Manages to offer a particularly affecting, well-observed portrait of young people coming of age in an east Texas town in the 1980s." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 12, 2011
4/5	59%	Forks Over Knives (2011)	" Explains in unflinching detail how we damage ourselves through our eating habits yet insists that it is within our grasp to change course." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 5, 2011
4/5	54%	Jumping the Broom (2011)	" Clashes of class within the African American community are not often depicted on the screen, but "Jumping the Broom" tackles them head-on with humor, compassion and plenty of wisdom." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 5, 2011
4/5	95%	13 Assassins (2011)	" A classic samurai movie, right up there among the finest in the genre." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 28, 2011
4/5	——	Zokkomon (2011)	" Not only has a light, fanciful touch and superior production design but also more substance and cohesiveness than much Bollywood fare." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 25, 2011
2/5	——	The Runestone (1991)	" For all its pretensions, "The Runestone" is just another routine horror picture featuring a big hairy monster on the loose." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 24, 2011
2/5	36%	Meeting Spencer (2011)	" Mowbray has some fine credits, including "A Private Function," but he and his cast cannot breathe life into such hopeless material." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 21, 2011
4/5	92%	The Four Times (Le Quattro Volte) (2011)	" Perched between fiction and documentary, "Le Quattro Volte" is above all a beautiful and profound evocation of the eternal cycles of life and nature." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 14, 2011
3.5/5	82%	American: The Bill Hicks Story (2011)	" Posthumous albums and now this film are securing his legacy and enduring influence." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 14, 2011
4/5	33%	Exodus Fall (2011)	" This graceful, easy-to-take picture is a nifty example of resourceful independent filmmaking, with a perfectly blended ensemble cast in well-drawn roles." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 7, 2011
4/5	——	No eres tu, soy yo (2011)	" It has a much lighter, breezier touch than most of its Hollywood counterparts; it's sexy without being crass, easy and relaxed rather than slick." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 7, 2011
4/5	82%	The Elephant In The Living Room (2011)	" This impeccably made film is chock-full of enlightening and sometimes bizarre moments..." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 31, 2011
4/5	——	Clash (2011)	" A dazzling Vietnamese martial arts movie with a soul, a stylish, gorgeously photographed film in which action sequences are punctuated by serene vistas of natural beauty." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 10, 2011
3.5/5	80%	Forget Me Not (2011)	" A surprisingly affecting experience." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 3, 2011
2/5	35%	The Grace Card (2011)	" Such over-the-top emotional extravagance that even Cecil B. DeMille in his silent period might not have been able to get away with it." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 24, 2011
1/5	7%	Immigration Tango (2011)	" It might have been a premise for an effective romantic comedy that pointed up the plight of undocumented immigrants, but Morris and his co-writers aren't up to the task." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 17, 2011

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